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Election roundup: Arroyo turns to traditional media, Ross tries out blipverts
By adamg on Mon, 07/15/2013 - 7:08pm
The Dorchester Reporter alerts us that Felix Arroyo is buying spots on Univision and Telemundo.
Meanwhile, Mike Ross is concentrating on an Old Spice Guy-like series of 12-second Instagram video replies to questions posed to him via social media, as well as answers to questions you probably realize after the fact you would have loved to ask him, such as why Good Will Hunting is the greatest Boston movie ever:
The Herald looks at the changing demographics of the North End, where loyalty still counts for something, which is how Rob Consalvo got some big-ass signs up in the neighborhood, but where Charlotte Golar Richie is now attracting fans.
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Max Headroom shout out!
Blammo!!
Half of what he says makes heads explode
The comparison is apt.
If he had any clue about "regional economy" he'd shut his flapping trap about students and universities.
Pa'lante?
Is it so much to ask from someone running for Mayor to use correct Spanish and not awful slang?
Whose correct spanish?
Explain. People come from many places and speak Spanish. Your high school Spanish teacher may simply have decided that his/her dialect was "correct".
Just like people around here think certain phonemes and certain word usages are "correct" because their HS English teacher said so - but they are wrong that their idea of correct is the only correct way.
It is slang. And you shouldn't assume.
Spanish is my first language. Pa'lante is a written version of the oft-spoken in Caribbean Spanish contraction of para adelante. It is used much in Venezuela, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. So I understand why Arroyo would use it. But it is incorrect slang. Spanish is not English. There are defined norms put forth by the Real Academia Española. Pa'lante isn't one. And not all Hispanics in Boston are from the Caribbean. If it were Spanglish, maybe. But pandering to people with slang is transparent and annoying. His Spanish accent isn't that good, either. It's obvious English is his first language.
Pandering to his people?
Pandering to his people? Hahahaha at least with that statement you were clearly transparent. Pretty clear youre not an Arroyo supporter and were looking for a reason be critical. Making a commercial in Spanish when you are running for elected office was not invented by Felix or his campaign and I bet he won't be the only candidate doing it. As for his Spanish it sounds good to me. And pa'lante is a phrase used often in Puerto Rico (I am Puerto Rican). But you know when you're looking for a reason to be trivial it's easy to find. Good luck with that.
Learn to read.
I didn't say pandering to his people. I said pandering to people. As in trying to be "hip" using slang. I don't want my representatives to be "hip". And you are right, I'm not an Arroyo supporter. And no offence, well actually I really don't care if I offend you, but a Puerto Rican judging if someone's Spanish is good? Puerto Rican Spanish is a disaster filled with Anglicisms and an English influenced accent, particularly stateside. So yeah, not exactly the best judger of whether someone's Spanish is authentic.
So, what's the Spanish translation for
Pommie Git?
Pedant?
Grammar Nazi?
So some academy decides what is proper Spanish? Really? Because you aren't speaking Latin somehow - how did that happen? Somebody slip up? And you don't learn formal Spanish at school from teachers, just at home? Not like native English speakers have "English" teachers? Really?
Languages are alive, have dialects and accents, etc. Also, campaign ads are INFORMAL SPEECH not formal writing.
But you probably don't use contractions, either. Because that would be too low class Americano for you.
no offense taken
As for your reply a few words come to mind...
pre·ten·tious
/priˈtenCHəs/
Adjective
Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed.
pomp·ous
/ˈpämpəs/
Adjective
Affectedly and irritatingly grand, solemn, or self-important: "a pompous ass".
Characterized by pomp or splendor: "there were many processions and other pompous shows".
Awful slang? I take it you're
Awful slang? I take it you're not a fan of the Caribbean dialects of Spanish? Language snob are we? Nevertheless, pa'lante is a well-understood slang in some Caribbean Spanish-speaking areas and perhaps elsewhere. It's a shortened version of "para adelante," a fairly common phrase made up of the preposition para, often meaning "for," and adelante, an adverb (sometimes functioning as other parts of speech) meaning "forward." Lucky for Arroyo most Spanish speakers I know don't have the same visceral response that you just had. Makes me wonder what you're problem with Arroyo really is.
It's a contraction
Pa'lante is simply a contraction. It is not "bad Spanish" any more than it is bad English to say "didn't" instead of "did not". The vast majority of Spanish speakers in the city of Boston are either Caribbean or Central American and the vast majority (maybe all) of them say "pa'lante" not "par adelante". As a matter of fact I have never heard a Latin American Spanish speaker in person or on TV ever say "par adelante". I don't know what the practice may be for Spanish speakers from Spain.
Welcome To America
Arroyo isn't interested in the Spaniard vote, but the Americans who speak Spanish vote.
He's also an American politician.
American politicians speak local dialects and speak to their target voters in informal ways. Even in Spanish. That's how American poltics work: we Americans don't like to be talked at in formal prose because somebody is our better. The specific tongue they use is irrelevant.
This is such a non-issue,
This is such a non-issue, it's ridiculously inane.
Is Arroyo the guy who thought
Is Arroyo the guy who thought WF should subsidize plantains for JP bodegas?
Councilor Ross deters access to City Council Stenographic Record
Councilor Ross deters access to the plain English text Stenographic Record of the Public Meetings of Boston City Council for hard of hearing folks, ESL English as a Second Language, dyslexic, ADD Attention Deficit, cognitive difficulty, neurological/perceptual difficulty, concussion recovery, stroke recovery, elderly folks. Keeping the Stenographic Record at too long an arms reach away from the public hampers access to the Councilors remarks and deters feedback, comment, questions, suggestions to Councilors remarks. Keeping the Stenographic Record at too long an arms reach is counterintuitive for Councilors letting the people know their remarks in the Public Meetings of Boston City Council held miles away from neighborhoods along the Neponset River, Mattapan, Hyde Park, Roslindale. Budgeted for with public funds the Stenographic Record is more complete than the heavily edited, too brief Minutes.